Many families are subsisting on a single meal a day.
Many get by on just bread and water.
Herat has become the closest refuge for about 60,000 people, who have been displaced from their homes due to the drought.
We have spent all the money we had and have taken many loans from relatives.” Given such meagre resources, the unconditional cash grants from ECHO and NRC have become life lines for tens of thousands of the impoverished households.
We fled our homes because there was no water and it is the same here.
He lives in a makeshift shelter with his family after they were forced to leave their home in Badghis city/region/province.
But, despite the challenges, women like 57 year old Khanim Gul, who have been displaced several times, show remarkable resilience.
Gul was forced to leave her family behind in Badghis.
“This isn’t the first year we are suffering from drought.
While news of peace talks and bombings in Afghanistan make the headlines, the IDP communities suffering chronic, long term displacement feel “forgotten” by their government and the international community.